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` BUTTON.

No. 325,912. Patented Sept. 8l 18815.`

m t Xww UNITED STATES PATENT QErrCE.

LEON PAUL OONARD, OE LONDON, ENGLAND, AssrGNOR OE ONEEALE To oHARLEs FERDINAND vErr AND` GEORGE DIOKMAN, BOTH OE sAME PLAGE.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,912, dated September 8, 1885.

Application tied January 23, i855. (No model.)

` citizen of the Republic of France, residing at London,`England, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in button-fastenings; and it consists in tho| combination of a hollow button-head,4 a disk fitted therein, a rod rigidly attached to the disk, and sliding, when acted on", in the stem or shank of the button-head, a shoe of one piece attached and pivoted to such rod and adapted to be brought into a plane parallel with the shank, and a spring supporting the disk and l normallyactingto hold it inposition to close the open top of the button-head.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation, part in section, of my improved button when in its normal position. Fig. 2 is an end elevation, part in section, of the same. Fig. 3 is an end elevation, part in section, when the spring-supported disk is depressed. Fig. 4 is aside elevation of the same. view with the spring supported disk removed. Fig. 7 is a bottoni view. Figs. 8 and 9 are respectively endV and side eleva tions of the spring-supported disk, together with the elastic rod secured thereto.

Similarletters indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, the letter Adesignatcs the hollow or slotted shank of the button, which has a hollow button-head, B, rigidly secured to one of its ends.

C is a disk, which rits the hollow button head B, and is adapted to move up and down in the same. action of fiat springs a a, secured to the bottom of the button-head B, or a spiral spring may be used instead, if desired.

D is a slide orleaf, which may be either of a circular, elliptical, or other suitable form, and which is connected to the other end of the shank A by a pivot, b, and projecting from this leaf on one side ofthe pivot b is a lug, f, which is pivoted at d to an elastic rod, e, rigidly secured to spring-supported disk C.

The action of Vthe springs aV a against the Fig. 5 is a top view. Fig.A 6 is a top This disk C is subjected to the position, Figs. l and 2, and when the disk occupies this position the slide or'leaf D is brought into a plane parallel to the plane of Vthe disk. When the button is to be inserted into cuis or the like, the disk C is depressed, Figs. 3 and 4, whereby the leaf D is caused to fold that is to say, brought into a plane parallel to the plane of the shank-and the slide orleaf and shank can be easily pushed through the button-holes,and on releasing the disk the springs a a raise the same into its normal position, and the leaf is brought in its first position, Figs. l and 2, wherebythe button is held in place.

In order that the button may be securely held when inserted in a cuff or the like-that is to say, in order to prevent the same from` being strippedout in case it should be caught and violently pulled-the springs a a are made of considerable stiffness, and when the leaf D is not symmetrically situated with respect toV the stripping out of buttons from the buttonholes.

It is not necessary that the button-head B should be made hollow, as an ordinary disk will answer all the purposes of the same.

Previous to myinvention buttons have been made with movable disks, such as herein described; but in order to insert these buttons it wasnecessary to draw the disk outward, and at the same time push the shank in through the button-holes,which made the manipulation of the button very inconvenient. This inconvenience is obviated by my device, in which the disk is pushed inward.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of the hollow buttonhead B, the disk (l, ttingV therein, the rod e, rigidly attached to such disk, and sliding, when acted on, in the stern or shank of the button-head, the slioe D, of one piece, atl the spring-supported disk C, and the elastic taehed and pivoted to such rod and adapted rod e,- conneeting the lug f with the disk.

to be brought into a plane parallel with the In testimony whereof I have hereunto set r 5 shank,-and the spring supporting the disk,and my hand and seal in the presence of two subnormally acting to hold it in position to Close seribing Witnesses.

the open top of the button-head substantiall y a as described LLON PAUL CONARD. [L 5.]

2. The combination, substantially as here- XVitnesses:

inbefore described, with the button-head B HERMANN BECK,

and the shank A, of the leaf D, connected to 65 Ockendon Road, Islington N.

LoUIs WHITE,

the shank by the pivot b, the lug f, projecting from the leaf on one side of the pivot I), l() Tierney Road, Streatham, S. TV. 

